Despite strong earnings and new stock market highs, we found 15 big U.S. companies with good prospects and single-digit P/Es, including MetLife, Prudential, Apple, Valero and JPMorgan Chase.

Even with the Standard & Poor's 500 index at new highs, there still are plenty of stocks with a single-digit price/earnings ratio.

Within the S&P 500, about three dozen stocks are valued at less than 10 times projected 2014 earnings; the nearby table identifies 15 low P/E gems. The single-digit group includes such well-known companies as JPMorgan Chase (ticker: JPM), Apple (AAPL), Citigroup (C), Deere (DE), General Motors...